Single or multiple dose container-closure assemblies

• US 4,512,475 A
• Filed: 11/04/1983
• Issued: 04/23/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Wheaton, Inc. (Crown Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Alberto Federighi
• Inventors: Federighi, Alberto
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/548,613
• Time in Patent Office: 536 Days
• Field of Search: 206/484, 206/820, 222/541, 222/456, 215/32
• US Class Current: 206/484
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/067 Flexible ampoules, the contents of which are expelled by squeezing
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/095 made of flexible material
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2221/00 Small packaging specially adapted for product samples, single-use packages or échantillons
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/82 Separable, striplike plural articles

Abstract

A series of container-closure assemblies, for liquid products characterized by a container consisting of a tubular hollow body portion having a lower side opening which can be sealed by welding and an upper neck closed at the upper side by a stalk and a stopper integrally connected to the discharge end of the container by a stalk provided with means to close the neck of the container after the opening by means of fracturing the stalk, the lateral sidewalls of the container body portion and stopper of each assembly in the series connected by fins and a fracturable scoreline to facilitate separation of each container-closure assembly of the series.

Claims

1. A series of injection molded container-closure assemblies, for liquid products characterized by a container consisting of a tubular hollow body portion having a lower side opening which can be sealed by welding and an upper neck closed at the upper side by a stalk and a stopper integrally connected to the discharge end of the container by a stalk provided with means to close the neck of the container after the opening by means of fracturing the stalk, the lateral sidewalls of the container body portion and stopper of each assembly in the series being joined by separate connecting fins, said fins of adjacent assemblies being connected along a fracturable scoreline to facilitate separation of each container-closure of the series.

2. Container-closure according to claim 1 characterized by the fact that the neck is cylindrical and the stopper has a central body from which the stalk protrudes from one side and an axial tang extending diametrically opposite to it relative to a cylindrical appendix of the body which forms a crown around the stalk, the fins protruding outside of said appendix, the stalk being such that it can be inserted with a tolerance in the hole of the neck which is opened after that the stopper has been removed by fracturing and the cylindrical appendix being such that it can be inserted with a tolerance around the neck during said insertion of the stalk in the discharge opening in the neck.

3. Container-closure according to claim 1 wherein said fins have essentially a trapezoidal shape.

4. Container-closure according to claim 1 wherein the extremities of the fins of the container body and the stopper from a joining element of the adjacent assemblies.

5. Container-closure according to claim 1 wherein assemblies are made of polypropylene.